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Till? GARDEN ISLAND TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1914
THE GARDEN ISLAND
TUESDAY NOV. 10. 1914
Issued-Every Tuesday.
Entered at the post office at
Lihue, Kauai, as second-class
matter.
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K. C. IIOITKK
Editor
Manager
Mr. Forbos On Kauai
Superintendent Eorbes, official
head of the public works depart
ment and harbor commission, has
today completed a comprehensive
survey of matters on this island
under his official direction or con
trol. He has seen a great deal,
and. we are assured, has learned a
great deal. Where differences of
opinion regarding public projects
were found he has listened atten
tively to all sides, which was as it
should be. This is the first visit of
Mr. Eorbes to Kauai, and by evi
dence's of a clear and quick grasp
of conditions and a disposition to
push things along with reasonable
sjieed, he has made an excellent
impression.
So in- of the important results of
Mr. Eorbes' visit arc that the
homesteaders near Kapaa will be
given seivicable roads t o their
holdings; Nawiliwili wharf will be
repaired at once, and a good start
has been nade in the rather up-hill
work of supplying better landing
accommodations at Waimea. This,
all, should be very gratifying, in
deed: and we fell quite sure that
Kauai will appreciate the attention
of the new superintendent in their
behalf, respectively.
Kauai (owing to the fact that
she is not on the route of general
trawl, perhaps,) has been more or
less neglected by Territorial de
partment heads in the past. Un
doubtedly this has not been their
fault entirely, but has been due
largely to our somewhat isolated
position. By making Maui and
Hawaii on one trip it has been like
killing two birds with one stone;
while the side excursion to Kauai
has doubtless impressed depart
ment heads in the past as being
too great a task for the work to
' be done. Thus our needs of a large,
public character have been neglect
ed not intentionally, but perforce
of circumstances. We are hopeful
that the results of Mr. Eorbes
tour may serve to induce other de
partment heads to visit Kauai with
more frequency.
Delegate Kuliio
The people of Hawaii have ac
cepted the promise of Kuliio that
he would improve upon his work
in Congress in the next two years,
and have granted his request that
he be returned again to Washing
ton. We sincerely hope, for his
own sake as well as lor the good of
the Territory, that the Delegate
sticks to his word.
The business of Hawaii in Wa
shington has been forced to take
care of itself this year. Congress
will meet again in four weeks,
nnd old as well as new business
directly affecting ;he interests of
these Islands will soon come up.
We hope to sec Kuliio there and
"on the job" when it does 'come
UP.
Kuliio asked for the support of
Kauai m the election of last week
and made the same definite prom
ises in exchange for it that he gave
to the voters of the other islands.
Kauai kept to the bargain; Hono-1
lulu and the other islands did the
same.' It is Kuhio's next move.
A.. i .... i
x,.u u, i.u. icmocr issues oi
IllK OAKDKN island will be
hummers. the paper f,or thei
first four weeks of that month be -
nig unusually large and well got-
ten Hp. 1 hose four issues will
carrr a great deal of Christmas ad.
vertising, both Honolulu and Ka-
I uai; and all gotten up in exception-
ally attractive form. Kauai nier-
chants wishing large space, either
j beginning during November or for
the four issues referred to in De
cember should make resei vations
now so as to have choice of posi
tions. The four December "big
fellows" will conclude with the
beautiful Christmas number, re
ferred to elsewhere in this issue,
which will appear December 22
three davs before Christmas.
Thk visit o f Superintendent
Eorbes, of the Public Works De
partment, to Kauai has been a
pleasure, and we are hopeful that
it may result in much good. There
is nothing like a department head
being familiar with the details of
the workwhich must be carried on
under him; and there is no quick
er and surer way to obtain this in
foruntion than by going personally
over the ground. Kauai has for a
loiig time stood in need of atten
tion from the Public Works De
partment and the Harbor Commis
sion, and now that the Superin
tendent has "sized up" things, we
may expect that results will soon
follow.
Evkrv two years Honolulu dis
charges the "rottencst board of
supervisors we have ever had."
Outsiders are coming to wonder
when fhe real bottom will be
reached.
OroiiTN'T the Honolulu steve
dores to get up a sort of "welcome
home" luau for Joe Eern about
January 1?
It must iiavr made George R.
Carter sliout with glee to learn by
wireless on his coast-bound stea
mer that the seventeen votes Ka
uai gave him in the primary had
increased to 47 in the regular elec
tion. If that rate of increase keeps
up he bids fair to reach Congress
about t h c same time Roosevelt
lands in Washington on the Pro
gressive ticket.
I low nick it would be if the
grandstand in the Lihue baseball
park could be brushed up and re
painted before the football season
starts in!
Wh WONDiiR if thej '11 ever elect
Mikaele president of the Senate.
I. FORBE'S VISIT
Continued from page 1
At Hanalei the Superintendent
proposes to wort a derrick on the
wharf and to nuke mi me necessary
repairs.
Nawiliwili wharf will be over
hauled thoroughly, re-ioofed, re
painted and put in first class shape.
Men for this work have been sent
for by wireless, and will arrive
Friday morning. It is certain
that new caps will be nut on all
piles, but how many new piles
may be put in will not be deter
mined until the present ones are
uncovered and examined. Gates
will be put on the wharf, and the
wharf will be closed up when not
in use. Smoking on it will be
strictly prohibited. The improve
ments to Nawiliwili wharf will
cost about Si.OOO.
Roads will at once be built to
ii. i 1
two will nc taken up first, a road
being provided for each. AtKala-
heo a road will be built to the
homesteads back o f Kukuilono ;
ParK-
Iinmediate improvements to Wai-i
mea wharr will depend entirely I
( upon tin- ability of the government
, to dispose of the $26,000 of 4
per
cent bonds set apart for that pup-
pose. If success is met with in dis-1
posing of the bonds, the work will ;
be started without delay. i
Mr. Eorbes, while here, showed
1 himself to be enthusiastic for good
( wharves and good roads to home,
steads; and declared that he intend, j
Jed seeing tlmt Kauai had both. J
uie Homesteads near Kapaa. under given expired without any expla
the direction of the Kauai road j nation or reply from Russia and
supervisor. Kapaa series one and j withsut any guarantee or assurance
AMEIM EDUCIITOR ON
(Continued from last issue.)
Eour more years of peace rolled through the neutral states of Bel-
by, during which, in spite of the
facts that Austro-IIungarv gave a
local constitution with represen
tative institutions to Bosnia-Herzegovina,
and Alsace-Lorraine was
admitted to representation in the
federal council, a s well as the
Reichstag of the German empire,
that is, war, made substantially a
state of the empire, the pan-Slavic
scliemes of Russia, the French
spirit of revenge and the British
commercial jealousy grew a,nd de
veloped and became welded togeth
er, until the triple entente became
virtually a triple alliance directed
against the two great states of
middle Europe.
THE HOUR OE ARMAGEDDON
Russia had now recovered from
the losses of the Japanese war and
the internal anarcln which follow
ed it, Erance had perfected her
military organization; Turkey was
now driven by the allied Balkan
states out of the calculation as an
anti-Russian power; Bulgaria, Aus-tro-Hungary's
ally, was now com
pletely exhausted by the war with
Turkey and that with her Balkan
allies, now become enemies; and
Great Britain was in dire need of
an opportunitv to divert the mind
of her people away from the inter
nal questions which were threaten
ing to disrupt her constitution.
The practiced ear could discern
the buzz of the machinery lifting
the hammer to strike the hour of
Armageddon. And it struck. The
foul murder of the heir of the
Hapsburgers set the civilized world
in horror and the Austro-Hunga-riau
empire in mourning. In trac
ing the ramifications of the treache
rous plot, the lines were found to
run to Belgrade. And when Austro
Hungary demanded inquiry and
action by a tribunal in which re
presentatives from Austro-Hungary
should s i t, Servia repelled
tin flfMllnllfl n i nrr,nc c! ,, f tvi'H,
her diguitv. Believing that iuquiiy
and action by Servia alone woti'd
be no inquiry and no action. Am-
tro-Hungary felt obliged to take
the chastisement of the criminals
and their abettors into their own
hands.
The Russian intervened to stay
the hand of Austio-IIungarv and
ask the German emperor to medi
ate between Austro Hungary nnd
Servia. The emperor undertook
the task. But while in the midst
of it he learned that Russia was
mobilizing troops upon his own
border. He immediately demanded
of Russia thai this should cease,
but without avail or even replv.
He protested again with the like
result. Einallv, at midnight on the
31 st of July, his embassador at
St. Petersburg laid the demand be
fore the Russian minister of foreign
affairs that the Russian mobiliza
tion must cease within 12 hours,
otlierwi.se Germany would be oblig
ed to mobilize,
At the same time the emperor
(directed his embassador in Paris
to inquire of the French govern
ment whether, in case of war be
tween Germany and Russia, Erance
would remain neutral. The time
from Erance.
of the German
The federal council
empire, consisting
of representatives from the 25
states and the imperial territory
of Alsace-Lorraine, then authoriz-
ed the declaration of war against
Russia, which declaration annlied.
according to
the sound principle
of international jurisprudence, to
all her allies refusing to give
guarantee of their neutrality
" ' I
BELGIAN'S NEUTRALITY. Siberian chains, while the burden
As France could move faster than i of taxation which we would tie
Russia, the rvrmnns turned t1iJnhI im-d to suffer in order n nrontf.
force of their arms upon her. They '
undertook to reach her bv way of 1
what they supposed to be the Hues!
o f least resistance. These lay I
giuin a n d Luxemburg. They
claimed that Erance had already
violated the neutrality of both by
invasion and by the flying of their
war airships over them, and they
marched their columns into both.
Belgium resisted. The Germans
offered to guarantee the indepen
dence and integrity of Belgium
and indemnify her for all loss or
injury if she would not further re
sist the passage of German troops
over her soil. She still refused and
turned to Great Britain. Great Bri
tain now intervened, and in the
negotiations with Germany de
manded as the price of her neutra
lity thatGermanv should not use her
navy against either Erance or Rus
sia and should desist from her mili
tary movements through Belgium,
and when the Germans asked to
be assured that Great Britain her
self would respect the neutrality
of Belgium throughout the entire
war on the basis of the fulfilment
of her requirements by Germany,
the British government made no
replv, 'but declared war on Ger
many. And so we have the alignment,
Germany, Austria and probably
Bulgaria on one side, Russia, Ser
via, Montenegro, Belgium, France
and England on the other, and
rivers of blood have already flow
ed. And we stand gaping at each
other, and each is asking the others
who did it. Whose is the responsi
bility, and what will become the
outcome? Now if I have not already
answered the former question I
shall not try to answer it. I shall
leave ach one, in view of the ac
count I have given, to settle the
question with his own judgment
and nivsolf. I thank John Morlev
and John Burns, the man of letters
and the man of labor, that they
haxorent the veil of diplomatic
hypocrisy and have washed their
hands clean from the stain of this
blunder crime.
THE OUTCOME.
Finally, as to the outcome, not
much can yet be said. There is
nothing so idle as prophecy, and
I do not like to indulge in it.
Whether the giant of middle Eu
rope will be able to break the
bonds, which in the last 10 years
have been wound about him and
under whose smarting cut he is
now writhing, or the fetter will be
riveted tighter, cannot easily be
foretold. But, assuming the one or
the other, we may speculate with
something more of probable accu
racy regarding the political situ
ation which will result.
The triumph of Gerniany-Aus-tro-IIungary-Bulgaria
can never
be so complete .s to make nny
changes in the present map of Eu
rope. All that it could effect would
be the momentary abandonment of
the Russian pan-Slavic program,
the relegation to dormancy of the
French "revanche" and the stay
of Great Britain's hand from the
destruction of German commerce.
On the other hand, the triumph of
Great Britain-Russia-France can
not fail to give Russia the masterv
of the continent of Europe and re
store Great Britain to her sove
reignty over the seas. These two
great powers, who now already be
tween them possess almost the half
of the whole world, would then,
indeed, control the destinies of the
earth.
Well may we draw back in dis
may before such a consummation.
The 'rattle of the saber" would
then be music iO our ears in com
parison with the crack of the Cos
sack's knout and the clanking of
-
and maintain the vast navy and
the annv necessary for the defense
of our territory and commerce
throughout the world against these
Teachers Convention
SupervisingJPrincipal Brodie has
prepared a notice to school teachers
in regaid to the approaching an
nual convention, a part of which
is as follows:
"It is expected that the annual
Teachers' Convention will be held
in January at Kapaa and it is plan
ned to assign an alloted time to
each school in which it will present
its best Ideas. To this end, each
school will make out a tentative
program that will total up, say
four minutes to the teacher. It is
not expected that every teacher
will take part; the tcachets chosen
and the length oi time of each ex
ercise being a matter for principals
to arrange. This program should
be readv and handed in by the
first of December. It should speci
fy the grade, nature of the exer
cise, give an idea of the method,
the time it will take and the name
of the teacher presenting it. The
committees will then select from
these programs a Convention Pro
gram so as to have as little dupli
cation as possible."
Liquor Commission Meets
The B o a rd of Liquor Com
missioners for the County of Kau
ai win Hold a meeting at tiic
County Building on Thursday,
December 17, 1914, at ten
o'clock A. M. to consider the appli
cation of J . K. Cockttt, Koloa, Ka
uai, for a renewal of the Whole
sale License now held bv him to
sell intoxicating liquors at Koloa,
Kauai, under the provisions of Act
1 19. Session laws of 1912.
All protests or objections against
the issuance of a license under said
application should be filed with the
Secretary of the Board not later
than the time set for said hearing.
W. D. McBryde,
Secretary Board of License Com
missioners.
4t.
Nov. 10-17-24-Dec. 1.
By Authority.
Notice is hereby given that Wil
liam Henrv Rice, of Lihue, Kauai,
has this dav been appointed In
spector of Explosives for the island
of Kauai, with full powers under
the law relating thereto.
Chas. R. Eorbes,
Superintendent of Public Works.
Honolulu, Nov. 9, 1914. 4-t.
Card Of Thanhs
1 wish to thank the voters of
Kauai and Niihau for electing me
to represent them in the Legisla
ture of the Territory of Hawaii
for the next two years, and to as
sure them that their confidence in
me will not be misplaced. Cam
paign pledges made by me will be
diligently carried out, and I will
always be found working earnestly
for the good of Kauai and the
Territory.
John Fassoth,
Waimea. November 7, 1914.
1-t.
FOR SALE
Singlecomb white Leghorn roos
ters, first class Pedigree stock, $4
and $5 apiece. Address P. O. Box
E, Lihue.
gigantic powers with their oriental
allv, Japan, would stay our wealth
endanger our prosperity a n d
threaten the very existence of re
publican institutions,
This is no time for shallow
thought or flippant speech In a
pliblic sense it is the most serious
moment of our lives. Let us not
be swayed in our judgment by
prejudice or minor considerations.
Men and women like ourselves are
suffering and dying for what they
believe to be the right, and the
world is in tears. Let us wait and!
watch patiently and hope sincerely j
that nil tint: nemm. le o nrtt 1nt.nM
i i..u(iiv.u, iuuui-
pain of history and that there shall 1
be born through it a new era of,'
nrosneritv linnn!
cousness for all mankind,
John w Buucrss
Athenwood Newport R "i
August 17 19H ' ' "
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